USPS Shipping Module [Support Thread]

[HeleneWallis]

Thank you Helene. I did modifications as you suggested and it works the reverse that I need. I need only master category 15 (books) to use Media Mail. What I have is category 15 (books) excludes the Media Mail and all other non-books show media mail. So my logic is backwards. I tried changing true and false but does not seem to work. Must have made a logic error.

I see that I phrased something backwards. What you need to do is not substitute your category number for books, but to add all the category numbers except the one for books. Changing true to false will just prevent the code from being executed at all.

For example, this shows two categories excluded from Small Flat Rate box shipping. That was my original requirement. Now I have four categories excluded, plus a couple of product numbers that are in permitted categories but are still not appropriate to ship in a Small Flat Rate box. I also have exclusions in otherwise permissible categories based on the quantity of items ordered (two would be okay in a Small Flat Rate box, three would not be okay, for example).

If you have a very large number of categories, so many that adding a conditional statement for every one of them except books wouldn't be feasible, you might want to look at reorganizing your categories so you have broader ones that include more kinds of products. For example, I had one category that included all the products from a particular vendor. Then he started producing a product that fell more logically into another category I already had set up. Except that it required me to add many more conditional statements to keep that new product from being shipped in certain size boxes, even though everything else in that category could be shipped in those boxes. I eventually moved the new product to the category that included all the others from that vendor, and was able to simplify the shipping code considerably.

[lat9]

If you're using USPS K11a, then including a modified version of the autoloaded observer example (present in the zip-files /extras sub-directory) should disable media-mail unless all products in the cart are from category 15:

            case 'NOTIFY_USPS_UPDATE_OR_DISALLOW_TYPE':
                // -----
                // Disallow "Media Mail" unless all products in the cart have their master_categories_id within category 15.
                //
                if (stripos($p1, 'Media Mail') !== false) {
                    $chk_media = 0;

                    $chk_media += $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id', '15');
                    if ($chk_media == $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents()) {
                        $p2 = false;
                    }
                }
                break;

If that books category contains sub-categories, you'll need to add additional lines to check for the presence of each of the sub-categories.

[HeleneWallis]

If you're using USPS K11a, then including a modified version of the autoloaded observer example (present in the zip-files /extras sub-directory) should disable media-mail unless all products in the cart are from category 15:

            case 'NOTIFY_USPS_UPDATE_OR_DISALLOW_TYPE':
                // -----
                // Disallow "Media Mail" unless all products in the cart have their master_categories_id within category 15.
                //
                if (stripos($p1, 'Media Mail') !== false) {
                    $chk_media = 0;

                    $chk_media += $_SESSION['cart']->in_cart_check('master_categories_id', '15');
                    if ($chk_media == $_SESSION['cart']->count_contents()) {
                        $p2 = false;
                    }
                }
                break;

If that books category contains sub-categories, you'll need to add additional lines to check for the presence of each of the sub-categories.

Thanks, I can use that too.

[dbltoe]

Looks like the servers are down.

https://downdetector.com/status/usps/

[charmlt]

looks like the servers are down.

https://downdetector.com/status/usps/

free shipping today!

[dbltoe]

Finally got through to USPS. They acknowledge problems since around 1300 CDT and have no estimate as to when the service will be back on line.

[osdmarine]

Finally got through to USPS. They acknowledge problems since around 1300 CDT and have no estimate as to when the service will be back on line.

I'm also currently down thanks to that since early this afternoon. This is one of my busiest weeks of the year the week before the last holiday too. Hope they get something figured out and quick! The USPS sites calculator is working, just not the one I use (most current version).

[osdmarine]

Finally got through to USPS. They acknowledge problems since around 1300 CDT and have no estimate as to when the service will be back on line.

Just an FYI I figured out what was wrong. Apparently I didn't have the most current USPS Plug In so downloaded the 8/7 one and installed and now my site's working again. Must have been some small issue that caused the previous version to quit working earlier today.

[mahlerosa]

Reading the "Read Me" portion of the USPS dowload. It states:
- /includes/modules/shipping/usps.php
- /includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/usps.php
- /includes/templates/template_default/images/icons/shipping_usps.gif
This does not match what my file structure looks like. I do not know where to put the files?
AM I supposed to upload the whole folder or just the USPS.php?
Thnx!